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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-29
Senator and Secretary.

Senator Nye, Of Nevada, went to Sec
rotary Stanton one day to make petition
for some dead soldiers orphans was
in the darkest days Of the war. STAN
ton said: Il have not time, Mr. Nye, to
see what you want" Suppose you take
time, Mr. Secretary" You are I'M
reasonable. Mr. Nye, in pressing such q
thing this time, said Mr. Stanton. Per
nit me TO say that you are the unreason-
able man., answered Nye. IF you were
not a United States Senator | should say
that you were very impertinent, said
Stanton, haughtily. II you were not
great Secretary Of War | should be
tempted to say you were making blame
big fool of yourself replied the old
Gray Eagle, with his eyes blazing. Stan
ton looked at him for moment, and
then, softening, said: maybe | am,
Jim. who knowsl Come inside and tell
me all about it." 'Now. Ned, nv boy,
you are growing sensible" said Nyc, and
the business was quickly arranged
Ben; Perley P0ors.
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An Indian sohvIar'o English.

The following was written by an Indian
scholar in the Hampton school:
Zone day, bright day, and little bird
happy and stood on log and sang all
day long. That bird doesn't know any
thing about cat. She thinks nobody is
near to her. But behind the near log
one sly cd cat is watching She want
to cat for supper and she thinks about
stealing all the time. The old cat came
very slow, and by-and-by she 90 after the
little bird, but she docs not see him, and
sang aloud again. She sang just like
this: L always Try to do what Is right;
when l ever died | go to heaven That
bird said these all words, and shall not
forget the bird what it said, and these all
words it said and after two three
minutes 20 died; that cat jumped and
catch and kill, eat up all except left little
things from bird, wings, legs, or skin,
and that bird is glad to die because she is
very good bird. That little bird has last
time sang, and very happy was the little
bird. after that think the old cat have
good dinner and happy just same as bird
was first time
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-29
POPULAR SCIENCE.

biologists are preplexed by the return
This season Of enormous shoals Of herring
to a point on the northwest coast Of
Norway, from which they suddenly and
completely disappeared twenty-five years
ago.
DR.. Welander has found mercury in
the body from six to twelve months, and
even more, after its use was discontinued,
but discredits the statment that it may
remain for twelve or thirteen years in the
system.
Iodine, hitherto found in nature only
in combination with other elements, has
been discovered in free state in the
water Of woodhall Spa, near Lincoln,
England. The iodine colors the water a
decided brown
A new discovery, by the use of citric
acid or citrate Of silver, seawater may be
made drinkable. By this means chloride
T Of silver is precipitated and harmless
mineral water Is produced. An ounce of
citrate makes a half pint Of water drink
able
It is not necessary to have different
metals TO obtain a current OF electricity.
Iron in nitric acid and iron in sulphuric
acid, the two fluids being separated by a
porous partition, will give current. one
plate wasting away while the other is
thickeHed.
A remarkably practical application of
4 well-known scientific fact has been
made in the soda locomotive. These en-
gines are now used in the st. Gothard
tunnel, Berlin and other European cities,
and are now to be put in operation in
Minneapolis.
There are now $50 local electrical light
ing companies in the country. The
capital invested in manufacture and
supply, according to the Electrical Re
riar, is between ninety and hundred
million dollars. There are lighted every
night in the United States 125, 900
voltaic arc lights and $50, 00o incandes-
cent lights.
Mary Z. Tousey, on the study of in
scots in the american Teacher, concludes |
that every insect has its use in the world. !
Many live very romantic lives-some are !
wanderers and some are social in their |
habits, all are wonderful 1t is possible
for us TO discover the secrets of their
Lives and the mysteries of their homes if
we carefully study them.
The variable star Algol is so infinitely
distant from the earth thst il takes thir-
ty years for its light to reach us. So we
see it as it was tlErty years ago, not as it
is to-day. When one Of its dissertations
occurs, therefore, the one that Is visible
to US occurred a generation ago, and
about 4, 600 such dissertations have taken
place and started on their way hither
since the one we see happened.
VI. Hermite,a French astronomer, states
that while the total number Of stars visi-
bic 10 the naked eye in both hemispheres
does not exceed q. 600, the number being
,, as for the Northern and 3, 800 for the
Southern hemisphere, 90, 900 may be seen
with an opera glass, $50, 900 with a small
telescope, and with the most powerful
telescopes that have been constructed
more than 100, 900, 600. OF course no
one ever did or ever can see so many;
but that is the computed number Of stars
that a powerful telescope could bring to
view
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-29

"Got the cholera in town. asked a
Nankin farmer who was on the market
yesterday.
"why, nc" answered the person in
terrogated.
Heard so out at my place yesterday.
Heard there were twenty-six cases."
''Oh, that's all nonsense. Are your
nsighbors much excited"
mot bit We began down there
with the measles and whooping cough
last October, and we are now tapering
of with catarrh in the head and a ring
ing in the ears. Excited Why,
come in TO get case of cholera for a
change r'-Detroit Free Press.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-29

A large part Of the Republic enjoys
The climate " the temperate zone. The
lou regions are termed the Ticrra Cullen
n, or h0f country At an altitude OF
3 coo feet above the srA-level we enter
fle Iiorva TsaPiaaa, the temperate
country. Extremes here are unknown.
Ihis climate extends and j. continued
from 3,oe0 FEET 20 1000 or s,0OO-the
se9Re q the table land while above
fhai j. the Ti>rra F5is, OF cold region
and the mean annual temperature OF the
cold Teeiaa Is about 60 degrees, the eK-
ffenes reaching from IS degrees to the
freezing point The year IS divided into
tHo peri0ds-E Esfi0, dry season. and
Ii Esfaeios d. las 8cHas, or the rainy
season. The rain5 season comprises the
Hoafhs q June, July, August and Sep
lfIulirT.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-29
A Deceived CANNES Act.

A farmer having sold flock of sheep
to dealer, Ient him his dog to drive them
home, a distance of thirty miles, desiring
him to gre the dog meal at his journeys
end, andtell it to 90 home The drover
found he dog so useful that he resolved
to keep il, and instead Of sending 1t back
locksfit up. Thecollie grew sulky,a and
at Ist effected its escape. Evidently
deening the droyer had no more right to
,Ftain the sheep than he had to detain
Self the honest creature went into the
sield collected all the sheep that had be
'lopged 10 his master, and to that persons
intense establishment, drove the whole
flock home again,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-29
Getting the Best of the Banana.


He was short man peryaded by d
generally rural air, and wore a derby hat
that looked like a chocolate drop.
He paused near the Post Office build
ing in front of an Italian banana cart,
and inspected the fruit with great interest.
'How's bernannersl1 he inquired
ne best bananas in &c city" said the
merchant from Italy earnestly. 'Zis &c
banana season. All of ZEN sound and
ripe"
How much for the yeller onesl"
1.-Two for FIVE"
"Well, give me one said the short
man. He passed over three cents, and
selecting banana began to remove the
skin. The fruit was slightly ovcrripe,
however, and being exposed, soft spot
on one side gave way and the edible por-
ton of that banana vanished in the gutter.
There was an expression Of intense sur
prise on the purchasers face. He looked
at the empty banana skin in his hand,
and then said to the vender: Il thought
you said this was the season for herman
nersl"
$50 it is"
'Maybe that was last seasons Der
manner"
- 'Srs. 49, said tho doaIo- irr,ratlortly
'zat was all right. You should have
eaten him."
Il didn't geta chance to eat it. Gimme
another"
The dealer objected, so they com
promised on another banana for two
cents.
The man with chocolate-drop derby
passed over the pennies, and as he grasped
the second banana, he remarked:
Il amt agoin' to lett Eyetalyun fruit
beat me- Plagued if / don't eat skin
and all this time"
And he did.-Nelc York Tribune.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-29
What the Gun Was Good For.

"Yes, gentlemen, said one of the few
yet unboycotted liars of the Bohemian
Club, as he finished a snipe-shooting
story; that was the most remarkable
gun ever saw. Wouldn't take a thou
sand dollars for it.
Its nothing to a gun used to own, -
said an cx-champion prevaricator, waking
up just then 1T was simply impossible
fora bird to get away from that gun. 1t
made the closest and most regular pattern
you ever saw. l traded for fifty-acre
lot
TO Bogardus, chr said the other FIN
ished equivocator, sarcastically.
mo, to Simpson, the big wholesale
druggist. He used it TO shoot holes in
porous plasters-fifty at clip
And then nothing could be heard ex-
cept the scratching of the other mans
pen as he wrote out his resignation
The Wasp.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-29
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Rather Confusing-The Same Old
PIace-Wanted a Change-Earlv
Marriage-What the Gun
was Good For. Etc.

In barber shop. Customer-''You
say the black horse wonln
"Yes, sir
why, a man just now told me that
the bay horse was beatenir
"Er-sirf''-Deir0it Free Pres.
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n An Unexpected Suggestion.

Say, Gaddersby, said Mr.. Smith, as
he came into the fish store with lot of
tackle in his hand. II want YOU to give
me some fish to take home with me- Kind
% fix EN- up so that they'll look as if
they've been caught to-day, will YOUR
Certainly, SIR" said the grocer
GLOW many"
"oh, you'd better give me three or
four bass. Make it look decent in guam
tity without appearing to exaggerate,
you know
ayes, sir. But you'd better take white
fish, hadn't your
"Whyl What makes you think sog'
ooh, nothing, except that your wife
was down here early this afternoon and
said said if you dropped in with a fish
pole over your shoulder and a generally
woe-be-gone look, to have you take white
fish if possible, as she liked that kind
better than any other.
Mr.. Smith took white fish. -NTehaat-
TrdUeler.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-29

A Michigan woman, who was trying TO
put out a fire on the roof of her house,
was blown from the building by high
wind and her arm was broken. In spite
Of her suiierings she climbed to the roof
twice afierward and put out the fire.
When II was al over she tainted.
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Eer Alpine stocks have the shepherds
cF.,ok and silver bands on which 10
slErzys Hames q places visited.
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eogu aitogefher.- said Dodo. looking
With decided resistance at the task sag-
eesfed.
Il depends on you. Dodo, whether
Ne any q Us, ever have anything new
again, sighed a faded little woman from
beg invalid chair before the FIRE.
Dedo looked distressed, and all the
lofsly color scddenly pAled from her
pretty cheeks.
oh. suufr, how does It depend on
mef she faltered, although she guessed
shat the siiusion meant.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-02
Mr.. Blame western Tour.

New YORK, March 26.-Ths Tribune TO-
morrow will say: ''The western trip Of
James g. Blaine, which he will start Mon
day morning, has been undertaken for re-
creation and business combined. Mr..
Blaine's daughter, Mrs. Lieutenant Colonel
Coppinger, who is with her husband ct
Fort Wichita, Indian Territory, has been e.
pecting q visit from her father for
some time. Mr.. Blaine 10 in
terested in two mines in Colorado
and desired to 60 to Denver on
business relating to those interests. On his
return from Fort Wichita he will probably
come By way Of Chicago and rest there for q
day. The trip will OCCUPY about twenty
days. Mr.. Blaine had host Of callers yes
terday. He resolutely refused to talk poll
tics with anyone and positively rspelled
every attempt to engage him in
conversation about 1888. he will
make no speeches while he il gone,
nor accept any receptions. Chairman B. f.
Jones, of the republican national commit
tee, came up from Fortress Monroe to see
Mr.. Blaine. The fact that Senator Hisoock
should happen to be here at the same time az
Mr.. Blaine created quite . mares nest of
political intrigue in some imaginative
persons. The senator had been in Wash
ington and was on his way homo and the
fact that Mr.. Blaine was here made no
difference to him. Mr.. Blaine went driving
at O'Clock this afternoon with Steven B.
ElkinA
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-02
A Decisien Rsversed.

WAsMNGTox. D. c., March q. "A decision
Was rendered by the United States supreme
court to-day In the long standing case OF
the United States against John Paul Jones,
administrator Of George McDouga1 ON an
appeal from the court Of claims. This suit
had its origin In q contract entered into
April 8, 1852, between p. NJ. WoosencIaft,
United States Indian agent in California,
and George McDougal to supply certain In
dams with CSC, 600 pounds Of beet. The beet
was duly furaished and Indian Agent Moos.
encraft gave Contractor McDougal drafts
on the secretary Of the interior, amounting
in the aggregate to $81, $50. The interior
department regarded the contract % un-
authorized and illegal and refused to honor
the drafts. On December 1, 1884, the score
tary referred the case to the court Of
claims under the provisions of section 1853
of the revised statutes and the court gave
judgment in favor of the appellee for $751;
25O, disallowing the sum Of $19,600
claimed in addition to the Judgment under
under the terms of tho contract From this
Judgment both parties appealed. the govern.
nent insisting that the claimant ought not
to recover anything, while the latter MAIN
tanned that he ought to have judgment for
SIS, 800 more. This court holds that the
contract Of April 3, 1882. upon which this
claim 10 based, imposed no legal obligation
upon the United States and that the judy
ment Of the court Of claims in favor Of Mo.
Douglas administrator was erroneous. The
Judgment il. therefore, reversed, and the
case remanded with directions to dismiss
the petition. Opinion by Justice Hartef.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-02
MARKET REPORTS.
Kansas City Grain and Produce Market
KANSAS CITY, March %, 1887.

Kansas City Grain and Produce Market.
| KANSAS CITY, March 20, 1887.
Live Stock Indicator reports: --pr
| FL0gR-Very dull. N othins except in
Quotatiops are for established brands in car
lots, per half barrel in sacks follows: Xxx. $50;
s. sOe1 40; fancy, 81 5o6i S; patent. 81 200
90; rye, 81 s001 so. From city mills go
WHEAT-Receipts at regular elevator since
last report 80. br shells; Withdrawals, 200 bush.
els, leaving stock In store as reported to the
board of trade to-day. 49,. $40.
The market on change to-day was nominal.
March. $50 bid, ESQ asked; April. go bid,
n bid rsn se s.led d'' a"0 bid $50 a'ksd juno
CORN-Receipts ut regular elevators since last
report. =. bushels and Withdrawals $50
o sSt e to
No. 3 cash, sis bids. s1so asfed; March. siHc
bid. $3.50 asked; April si1ac bid: SIC asked;
,OATs-No. 2 cash. 27o, bid. 2snc asked
Mar March. 2as bid: &c asked; april. 2SaS Do.
iected cash. no bid nor off rings
RYE-No. 2 cash, 45c bid: 49c asked;
March. 4Sc bid. &c ssked; April, 42c BID; no
POULTRY.Live-Ol hens. fat heavy, SO IS
ROSTERS, 50 Is; turkeys Sc. Dressed-Chicken
&c; turkeys lie; ducks 1850.
EGGS Steady at lie.
BUTTER-Good. Creamery fancy. 28c: good
&c; hne dairy, &c; store packed, 15918; CON-
mon 6@8c.
HAY-Steady. Fancy small baled. s. 90. large
baled, 81 90.
OIL CAKE-Per 100 lbs. sacked, 81 Is: 81
per ton free on board cars Car lots $40 90 Pc
ton.
CORN MEAL-Green. 75c; dried, sOc; chop
yellow Csc bulk Zoe sacked.
SHIPPING STUFF-Bulk, 50d55o.
CORN CHOP 5ulked IS, sacked Toe.
FLAXSEED-85G9O
BRAN-Bulk. 30: sae ked $50.
CASTOR EsNS-s1 S.
H1DES-Dry flint, No. 1. per pound. 12c. No.
z 1Oc, dry flint bulls and stays, 10c; dry sailed.
No. / lie; No. Q &c; gree. salted, No. 1, TIC
No 2 &C.; green sailed bull and stag, SIC: green.
0ncnrred No. 1, 6hc; No. 2 SIC; calf, 7@0;
sheep pelts. dried. e611c per Id.
WOOLrMissOui unwashed, heavy, fne 100
16c: light fne. Is; &c; medi1m. 22G23c medium
cOmbing, 22024c coarse combing: 2@21c; low
and carpet, 15G17c. Kansas and Nebraska, heavy
tub washed. choice medium. s46s5c; fire, $40
Sc; dinRy and low, 27639c,
CBEESE-We quote: Full cream, 13K01&c,
fats. 7@8e; Young American, 15c; Kansas B07c.
BROOM CORN Quotations: Hurl. 10c: self
v0rkir g. 6G7c; common. Sc. crooked. sh@4c.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-02
A Rank rELLERY PLUCKY srRUG-
GLE.

An Attempted Bank Robbery and the
Shooting Of the Teller. Mr. Carrier.
Nxv YoxK, March 28.-An Antagonist,
Nova Scotia, special, dated yesterday, says:
An attempted bank robbery and murder
here yesterday was one of the most daring
acts in the criminal annals Of Canada. The
offender is said to have been tho principal In
bank robbery at Lewiston, Maine, from
whence he escaped to Nova Scotia. He gave
the name of Stanley Steele. Of Guysboro, N.
b. He u an accomplished penman, refined
in appearance and of excellent address. He
came to Antigonish Friday afternoon. At
1890 Saturday Steele entered the bank and
private Office. They retired to the room,
Steele closing the door behind him. In q
moment the robber drew two
revolvers, one in each hand, and
pointing one at Teller Curriers' head
and the other at his heart,
called on him to throw up his hands. Our
rier is 26 years old, six feet two inches in
height, and q strong,. wiry fellow. In
throwing up his hands he sprang uoon his
sssailant. At the same time Steele fred,
and the bullet struck Currier in the fore
head. A life and death struggle ensued,
Currier graphing with the murderous bur-
glar with desperation of despair.
In the struggle Steele aimed q shot at
Curriers' heart and sent bullet INTO his
left side which travelled along the rib four
inches, then came out and Il dyed in the
wall. All this was done in half q minute.
McGill Avery, the Office boy, rushed into the
private Office and Steele Gov
cred him with his revolver.
The boy went back, jumped the counter
and went into the adjoining building for
assistance. A score of men rushed to the
rescue and Steele was secured. He was told
that Currier was dead, and received the
news with the utmost composure. He says
tho first shot, which entered Curriers' head,
was accidental, but when it came to .
matter of life and death with him he deter
mined to kill Currier. His original object
was to brighten Currier into silence by the
revolvers, and he was greatly surprised at
his resistance. He thought to kill Currier,
choke the boy, take the money, rush to the
station and get away on the train, which
would leave in few minutes. The bullet
has been extracted from Curriers' hesd. and
the doctors hope for his recovery. Had
Steele succeeded in his desperate attempt
he would have secured $4,000.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-02
Fighting Attorneys.

CHARLESTON, S. O., March 28.-At New
berry to-day, while q case was progressing
before Justice Bleach, George Johnston and
John s. Jones, attorneys, representing the
parties to the suit, pulled their pistols and
opened fire on each other. Nine shots were
cred. Johnston was shot through the right
ear, in tho left arm and in the thigh, but
was not seriously hurt. Jones was shot
through the body and perhaps fatally
wounded. In trying to stop the firing Law
yer Grower had three holes shot through his
clothing. The court room was crowded at
the time Of the ARRAY. Both Johnston and
Jones are highly connected and among the
most prominent mon in tho community.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-02
THE MANDAN FLOOD.
Several Lives Known to Have Been Los,
and the End not Yet,

Several Lives Known to Have Been Lost,
and the End not Yet.
BISMARCK, DAK., March 25.-It was learned
last night that D. NJ. Kennedy, wife and three
children, are held on Sibley island by the
food, and for six days had been living on
food saved from the water. There is no hope
of rescuipg them until the food subsidies
They can be seen with field glasses occupy.
ing nest built in the limbs of trees, over
Pacific managers have abandoned all hope
of removing the gorge by dynamite. They
cannot say when they will be able to ship
freight across the river. Passengers are
transferred by boat. A party of twelve,
in attempting to Cross in q boat from
Mandan Wednesday evening, were driven
by the wind and ice into q willow thicket,
and passed the night there, mOmentarily
expecting death. They were rescued in the
BOWIE, Dakota, March 25.-Last reports
from the stage owners from La Grace and
LIE Bean to-day say that q great deal of
property has been lost during the last ten
days owing to the high water of the Mis-
souri, river. At LIE Bean the people in the
bottoms were compelled to flee to the high
E bluffs q, B B;a Sn;,9 Olson d. was on the
was rescued next day. Mr..
Kirkland was drowned before he could reach
high ground. Wilkins d Skiuner's ranch.
near La Grace, is under several feet of
water. The Grand river ice broke apart to-
day and it is now overlooking, and it is ex
pected when the gorge at Bismarck breaks
that the river will rise several feet moro.
81 PAU, March ga Pioneer Press
special from Vermillion, Dakota, says:
The Missouri river is rising here steadily
Eighty yards of the railroad track has been
washed out, causing the abandonment OF
the Sioux City & Yankton trains. The peo-
pie are removing their household effects and
stock from the low lands in preparation for
the worst.